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“stone and metal” is exploring the personal space of “cold” materials and presenting them in a very “warm” and sensual way. with excessive close miking of hand played gestures and textures of stones, metal and their interaction, it was possible to capture their beauty and organic, almost animate qualities, presenting them in a very intimate way to the listener. to further strengthen the peculiar sensation of space and it's intimacy, the use of artificial reverberation has been completely relinquished. the sound transformations on the other hand provide the necessary contrast to the organic recordings with both affecting the conception of space and beauty. the artificialness of the sound transformations are intentionally exposed to enhance the vividness of the sound recordings and also to provide the driving force of the musical development. their energy, in terms of gestures, tends to invade and envelope, in terms of textures, the personal space of the listener, making him being involved in exploring the manifold layering of the sounds.

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Constantin Popp, born in Berlin 1980, studied electroacoustic composition at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt in Weimar with Robin Minard. Additional supervisions in composition were received from David Berezan, Franz Martin Olbrisch and Thomas Heyn.

He collaborated, among others, with Andreas Bick, laborgras, Jan Wagner, Johannes Mayr, Robin Minard and Markus Wintersberger, doing works for dance, film, radio and stage. He received commissions from "pèlerinages Kunstfest Weimar", "Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar", the "Deutscher Musikrat" and Swiss Radio DRS2.

As a student he worked as a technical assistent at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universtity Jena, Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar (HfM Weimar) and the ETH Zurich, as well as an teaching assistent in composition at the Studio for electroacoustic Music (SeaM) of the HfM Weimar since 2007 which has been changed into a lecture position in 2009.

In 2010 he received a DAAD bursary and the Victor Sayer Award to study electroacoustic composition at University of Manchester, UK.